Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art.
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Advertisements for meat, corn flakes, candy bars, flour, beer, wine, spirits, broccoli, peanut butter: Here they are.
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Automobile ads kept magazines going through good times and hard. High-ticket items, they could afford to pay for color reproduction when that was too expensive for most other products. Everybody knows something about cars! Some of these ads were created by the best artists in the business. And some of them are just fun to look at as nostalgia; or, if you prefer, ancient history. Trucks here, too. Also wagons and carriages.   If you like these, check out this great website of scans of...
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Here we find pulps devoted to the adventurous thrills that all their readers hoped might be theirs some day, or else just lived vicariously in the thrilling dreams of others. Danger! Warfare! Frontiers! Mysterious messages and treacherous missions against hopeless odds!
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Begun in 1910 as a way for publisher Ridgway to tap into a new market, it specialized in stories of danger and thrills. At this time other pulp and popular magazines contained a wide variety of stories ranging from danger to romance (even when these are not the same thing). Its creation was a logical response to the success of pulps like ARGOSY, which by 1910 were selling hundreds of thousands of copies of each issue; but the focus on adventure was something new. It survived, in one form or...
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A noxious weed, and an important part of the American economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tobacco advertising paid for many an editorial lunch and kept lots of artists employed.
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Here are the ads for the common everyday household things you need to have around to keep the place clean and running. And also the objects of beauty that make life worthwhile. A little bit of decoration, a little bit of dirt removal.
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Clothing and fashions pay the bills at our department stores and shopping malls. We pay the bills for our clothing and fashions. And advertisements in magazines told us what we were going to buy (or make), and why.
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Mainstays of the advertising pages were personal items such as toiletries, beauty aids, perfumes, bath and facial soaps, and the like. Human interactions are important: Flowers, cards, notes.
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Art prints have been around as long as printing has been around. Film, movies, cinema, as an art that moves, only a short time, but fully the memory of living humans. Books and magazines have been the subject of ads as long as the memory of humankind. Or so it would seem. Not only did magazines run ads for themselves and for other titles from the same publisher, they often ran ads for totally unconnected magazine titles. Sometimes they sold the space to the other publisher, and sometimes they...
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Build a transportation system, and people and things will travel. Here are ads for all things related.
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Audio, and early video, and records, and entertainment. The beginnings of an industry that is still with us, slowly engulfing (or being engulfed by) the computer industry.
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The (undated) first issue of Hugh Hefner's revolutionary magazine, the one with the famous center spread of Marilyn Monroe. Artist: Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Playboy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Health and medicine ads have supported numberless magazines over the years. Some publishers refused patent medicine ads, and some got rich on them. Ditto for equipment, which can range from something as straightforward as crutches to something as questionable and as "Violet Rays". Techniques can be as simple as yoga and as complex as sequestration in a private hospital.
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Magazines aimed at men. A lot of cheesecake and spicy stuff, with a lot of adventure and sweat. You know what you're looking for here.
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This archive is about art in vintage magazines, but there weren't actually that many vintage magazines about art and design. Even if you throw Antiques into the pot, the number is small. Don't worry; it may be small, but what's here will be of great interest.
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Bicycles became vastly popular in the late 19th century and paved the way (sorry!) for automobiles by creating a population that wanted good, smooth, hard-surfaced roads and plenty of them. Motorcycles were an adaption that combined the best and worst of the two. And then there were motorbikes, and scooters, and any motorized conveyance that could spring full-blown from the head of the American backyard inventor.
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Advertisements for outdoor and indoor sports and equipment for them. Guns, rods, racquets, balls; the list is endless.
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Pens and pencils and paper and office supplies. Now we have major national chains providing these materials to the end consumer. Back in the day we needed to see ads like these to decide what to buy. Hey, we still do.
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Artist: Maud Tousey Fangel Source: Antique dealer Vicky Cirner Image Processing by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Home Companion, Maud Towsey Fangel, baby, child,...
Without cameras the magazineart.org would be a lot smaller and less interesting. Hail photography!
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There were at least three issues of this pulp, but even the experts don't have much to say about it, except "rare to very rare".
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Topics: Weekly Magazines, Collier's, The National Weekly, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Toys. Games. Let's play.
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First issue of WEIRD TALES; normal version with correct color inks.
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A motor car for the multitude: A recent development of the motorcycle. Small three-wheeled cars built on a motorcycle design. This magazine is still being published! You can subscribe to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, or to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND. You should also look at the books they have published.
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ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men. It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in...
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Two nearly naked Greco-Roman wrestlers. PHYSICAL CULTURE "Points the Way to Virile Manhood and Superb Womanhood," and is "The Guide to Real Efficiency." Artist: Source: Collector and author John Locke Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, nude, competition, Olympics, gay
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Photo of Lilly St. Cyr in even less, strategically hidden behind content banner. Nudists hold a convention. Glamour girl comedienne. Wild gorilla on a spree. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Find here ads for instruments, sheet music, musical books, accessories, concerts; anything music-related. However, note that phonographs and record players and gramophones have their own section, with radios, televisions and the like.
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39 home workshop projects; complete plans for 15 foot canoe. Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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Naked woman wrapped in a bouquet with roses; a "rose among the flowers." Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, metaphor, nude, nudity, seduction
What happened when a white man and a native girl met far from civilization. Actually, this is an ad for the new 26-volume set of the works of Joseph Conrad, illustrated by a still from an MGM movie apparently based on "An Outcast of the Islands." This ad was published in the August, 1927 issue of THE AMERICAN MERCURY. Artist: Source: MagazineArt.org Physical Archives Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Book Ads: Fiction, magazine...
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"Tender melody" by vivian Grey. Man nuzzles woman's neck and fondles her left elbow, from behind. Artist: Source: Photographer PopKulture Restoration by: magscanner
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Source: Collector and bibliographer Steve Lamazow Image Restoration: magscanner Our Sponsors:
Topics: Humor Magazines, Early Humor Magazines, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Woman picks up a fisherman, but it's all "Perfectly Proper," according to author Marie Hoyt. Artist: Modest Stein Source: Photographer PopKulture Restoration by: magscanner
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Adventure in the Orient! A continuation of ORIENTAL STORIES, there were five issues published quarterly 1933-4. A rare and valued pulp.
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Nudist people read newspapers, drink coffee and cocktails, and talk amongst themselves. Content: "Baltic Night," by Paul Morand, and items by Sinclair Lewis, Turgeniev, William Seabrook, Richard W. Child, Smollett, and Stephen Leacock. Artist: Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: General Fiction Pulps, Golden Book, drama, struggle, nudity, compassion, Russian
Women's magazines covered some or all aspects of what was thought of as womans' life of the time, especially current fashions, housekeeping, children, decoration, and the management of home economics. For relaxation there were lots of fiction, puzzles and games, many serious and informative articles, and some excellent cover artwork. And ads, lots of advertisements, for travel, cosmetics, clothing and fashions, jewelry, foods, domestic and kitchen appliances.
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Among the most popular of the pulp magazines were those specializing in science fiction and fantasy stories. Most of cover art for these is well covered in existing websites. On MagazineArt.org we concentrate on rare and uncommon titles, those you are unlikely to see elsewhere.
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Military motorcycle with machine-gun sidecar mounted on a ski for travel over snow. Artist: Edgar Franklin Wittmack Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Popular Science Monthly, warfare, attack, speed, winter,...
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Photo of Barbara Osterman in bikini swimwear. Durocher's luck; girlie Las Vegas; Germany's sex problem; hillbillies take over Hollywood; and other stories. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Woman in classical costume, more risque yet. Artist: Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Art and Design (and Antiques), Art Magazine, sex, art, money
More action and adventure! Fiction House's ACTION NOVELS published 25 issues in the period 1928-33. It was revived as a quarterly as ALL-ADVENTURE ACTION NOVELS in 1937, but only actually published one issue each in 1937, 1938 and 1939, before disappearing for good. Source: AHGTTP.
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Woman in elaborate tent wearing a patterned cape, holds it up for you to see. For the "Autumn Pattern Number" of the magazine. Published in the October 13, 1922 issue of LIFE, the Humor Magazine. Artist: Helen Dryden Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Magazine Ads: General,...
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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Photograph of strong man Eugene Sandow. Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, strength, exercise, weights, body
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Jet-propelled racer seen at speed on the sand at the beach, article by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Artist: Source: The Gerik family of Lawton, Oklahoma Restoration by: magscanner
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10 STORY BOOK began in 1901 as a magazine publishing general fiction, but after a few years became a spicy magazine featuring female nudes. It was edited 1917-1940 by the astonishing Harry Stephen Keeler.
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Mary Collins Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
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There were plenty of pulp and pulp-like magazines that used sex as a marketing tool, whether explicit (and sold under the counter) or just as a theme. A lot of them ran only one or a few issues and were published by fly-by-night operators, but others lasted for years and anchored large publishing companies.A good short history of SNAPPY STORIES (to be added) can be found at the eNewsstand project.
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Mostly naked woman being threatened metaphorically by a giant human skeleton, or at least parts thereof. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Spicy Pulps, Spicy Mystery, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Spicy pulp or photojournalism? America's most undressed working girls. And one of them a photojournalist, too. "The entertaining picture magazine." Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: News and Current Events Magazines, Photojournalism Magazines, sex, legs, babe, beauty
Buy and bicycle or build it; repair it; add on it; or dress for the occasion.
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An assortment, a variety, a gathering of adventures.
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Mad historian about to drop 500-year time capsule, containing nude man and woman, into the earth. Artist: Source: Heritage Auctions Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Horror Stories, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
An artistic nude in the woods to attract buyers with the cover art. Artist: Carl V. Mar Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Art and Design (and Antiques), Magazines About Art, sex, nudity, classical
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Toy invention! Big money for home workshop fans. Man with wooden animals, including a Donald Duck (wonder if he licensed it?) Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Mechanix Illustrated, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Ad for Modes magazine, with pattern included, from the November, 1896 issue of COSMOPOLITAN. Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Magazine Ads: General,...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Magazines about humor. Humorous magazines. Magazines full of jokes and funny stories and cartoons and parodies and humorous pictures.
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Our magazines, especially those aimed at men, have always been full of ads for neat technology stuff (to use the technical term). Here's the category for all those ads (except for Radio/Audio/TV, which has its own category).
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Magazines aimed at children and young people have a long and generally positive history. Many writers and artists who grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries trace their fascination with the arts to the magazines they read as children.
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Woman smiles knowingly, staring at a statue of an undraped female torso in a museum. Another good way to show a sexy babe without necessarily getting hauled in by the porn police in 1921. Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, babe, nude, nudity, scandal
Viola Dana, celebrity endorsement, Maybelline. Accentuates the lovely sweep and length of her curling lashes by darkening them with Maybelline. From the August, 1926 issue of PHOTOPLAY. Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Personal and Human Aspects, Women's Toiletries and Makeup, beauty,...
Woman carefully tying her hat on. looking at herself in a mirror, for the "Millinery Number." Published in an early 1920's issue of LIFE, the Humor Magazine. Artist: Helen Dryden Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Magazine Ads: General,...
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Safecracker, distracted by beautiful woman tied to vault controls in bondage pose, decides to see if her melting temperature is the same as that of the steel door. Artist: John Newton Howitt Source: Heritage Auctions Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Horror Stories, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Always a mainstay of the magazine advertising pages, companies that promise to train you for a new job or educate you for a new role in life or society have given us images that have become part of our popular culture.
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Nude, but protected by draped cloth. Postal inspectors expected momentarily. Artist: Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Art and Design (and Antiques), Art Magazine, art, body, beauty
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Katharine II of Russia, as you've never seen her. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
In the beginning, SHORT STORIES was a small magazine that published literary short stories, often translated from other languages. By the 1914 it had become a pulp magazine, generally featuring an action scene on its cover. A SHORT STORIES cover from its glory days is immediately recognizable from the iconic red sun that from 1917 was always found in the background. For many years it published two issues a month, but went to monthly publication with the April, 1949 issue. In the 1950's it...
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
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